So tell me the truth about loveWhat are the secrets of romance and physical attraction? The Science Gallery will reveal all at its Love Lab exhibition, writes DICK AHLSTROM
Salting of roads brings alert on bridge corrosionUCD researchers are designing ‘smart bridges’ that can indicate when repairs are needed, writes DICK AHLSTROM
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Dinosaurs get a fresh new lookSCIENTISTS HAVE found a way to identify the colours displayed by 125- million-year-old feathered dinosaurs. One species in particular was an out-and-out ginger, complete with an orange and white-ringed tail, writes DICK AHLSTROM
Weather alerts for motoristsAN IN-CAR satellite navigation system offers a handy way to get around, but what if it sends you into a snowdrift or a two-hour traffic tailback?, asks DICK AHLSTROM
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- On the Radar
The pick of the science news
Obesity and smoking reduces abilityto fight cancerHOW ARE those New Year’s resolutions shaping up? If they involved kicking cigarettes and slimming down to a healthy weight, then a new study led by University College Dublin should provide a bit of extra motivation, writes CLAIRE O'CONNELL
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- Nuclear winter weather forecast
READERS WILL recall debates held in the 1980s on the global nuclear winter projected to follow all-out nuclear war between Russia and America. Nuclear winter was estimated to be severe enough to wipe out human civilisation and this lead to worldwide demand for nuclear disarmament, writes WILLIAM REVILLE
- Challenge to Darwin in convergence theory of evolution
THE THEORY of evolution through natural selection, discovered independently by Charles Darwin (1809-1882) and Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), is the central organising theory in biology. While there is general agreement among scientists on the broad outlines of how evolution works, many important details remain to be worked out. For example, most biologists believe chance plays such a major role that, if evolution were to run its course again, the range and nature of biological organisms it would produce would be radically different to what we see on Earth today, writes WILLIAM REVILLE
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